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Kyiv has painted itself into a corner

I had thought the fever in Ukraine had spiked at last — but it rages on.

The Crimean Parliament’s Thursday vote for a referendum by March 16 on joining Russia and the Ukrainian Rada’s vote on pursuing membership in NATO got right to the heart of the crisis: security, and the accommodation (or not) of Russia’s obvious and abiding security interest in Crimea.

Meanwhile, Moscow made it clear again that it does not recognize the Kyiv government (Russia wouldn’t let its Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, meet his Kyiv counterpart, Andrii Deshchytsia, in Paris Wednesday). It also signalled it will act to discredit the new authorities — using tactics like

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